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What you do if you had money, time & skills? (Read 163 times)
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I would build a mud brick house and an aeroplane.
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gizzo wrote
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I would build a mud brick house and an aeroplane.
Nice!
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09/10/17 at 03:31:29
If I was young, healthy and strong again, I would build a log home with a VERY LARGE garage using squared off logs to make stacking them easier, AND take welding and machining classes so I could do more on bikes. Then I would need to populate the garage with building tools.
Oh, one more thing...buy a helicopter!
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09/10/17 at 04:50:24
I think machining is probably the thing I wish the most I could have been introduced towhen I was in school. I didn't even know it was a thing. In hindsight I think it could have really caught my imagination.
If I had the money today, I'd buy a good lathe.
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Sticking a midsize sportbike engine in a 'feetforward' frame is another object to accomplish!
I'm just gonna leave this here! 😎
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09/10/17 at 19:58:23
good one! I bought a Vulcan 500 in '15 and sold it a year later. Overweight and overlong. It was too pretty to cut up, so sold it to a noob for a profit.
That's the idea though. FZ07 engine in foot forward, short wheelbase frame, woohoo!
GS500 w/feet forward!
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zipidachimp wrote
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good one! I bought a Vulcan 500 in '15 and sold it a year later. Overweight and overlong. It was too pretty to cut up, so sold it to a noob for a profit.
That's the idea though. FZ07 engine in foot forward, short wheelbase frame, woohoo!
GS500 w/feet forward!
I sat on a new 2016, Vulcan 500 when I was looking for a bike. They had one in the same showroom a the S40. I also felt it was a bit long, and felt heavy ... especially at 500 cc.
Whole different story when I sat on the S40
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09/10/17 at 22:13:59
When I heard the Rebel 500 was coming, got really excited, but then Honda did the unforgivable and created the ugliest bike in the world, with MID controls. Can no one get it right? Jeez!!!!
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09/10/17 at 22:22:35
zipidachimp wrote
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When I heard the Rebel 500 was coming, got really excited, but then Honda did the unforgivable and created the ugliest bike in the world, with MID controls. Can no one get it right? Jeez!!!!
Haha, No, they can't! If only they would come to my place, measure me, and ask my opinion ... then we could get this done properly
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09/10/17 at 23:11:44
the 'street twin' is nice, but insurance over 750cc here is expensive. A street twin 650 would be ideal, but Triumph and all the rest don't care! Screw 'em. I'll stick with modifying older bikes to suit me. Cheers!
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09/11/17 at 06:57:25
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Lancer and Versey just left my place to get out in front of the Hurricane rain coming in. They have two bikes that looked a lot like that first picture you posted ... but ... they got them big pistons , super cams , special carbs and such in the mix too.
If I could get the time set aside I'd line-up a string of campgrounds so I could take my Savage for a 10 day cruise !
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09/11/17 at 15:05:18
zipidachimp wrote
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the 'street twin' is nice, but insurance over 750cc here is expensive. A street twin 650 would be ideal, but Triumph and all the rest don't care! Screw 'em. I'll stick with modifying older bikes to suit me. Cheers!
Building your own bikes comes a huge sense of accomplishment & pride !
Not to mention you get to ride a bada$$ bike , one no one else has !
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